The Value Of Stool Testing
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
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🗓️ 13 July 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
For people with chronic diarrhea, the stool test markers steatocrit and elastase can quickly distinguish between two treatable GI disorders: bile acid malabsorption and exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. In today’s podcast, Dr. Ilana Gurevich fills us in on the value of these two stool markers for helping patients with diarrhea. https://drruscio.com/the-value-of-stool-testing
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, discussing the cutting edge in health, nutrition, and |
| 0:13.8 | functional medicine. To make sure you're up to date on this and other important topics, |
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| 0:27.0 | The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat |
| 0:32.1 | any disease. Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor. |
| 0:37.1 | Now let's head to the show. |
| 0:39.8 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:41.0 | Today I speak with Dr. Alana Gerevich. |
| 0:43.8 | If you remember, she was on the podcast a number of months ago discussing how many |
| 0:49.8 | a marker on some functional medicine stool tests had no validation, while others actually did. |
| 0:57.2 | She sent me an email wanting to kind of have a little bit of an airing of a disagreement about |
| 1:01.9 | a few markers that she feels really make it appropriate to be doing stool testing in those |
| 1:08.8 | who are having a tough time with improving their digestive health. |
| 1:12.8 | So we aired those. Essentially, the two markers are, or the two tests are to assess EPI or |
| 1:21.1 | extrachrine pancreatic insufficiency. Essentially, your body does not make enough pancreatic enzymes. |
| 1:27.4 | And this is a legitimate thing. |
| 1:28.8 | This is medically recognized. |
| 1:30.5 | It has a validated lab marker and corresponding treatment that has been shown to correlate with this lab being positive. |
| 1:38.7 | So all the boxes do we need to check to justify a test? |
| 1:42.0 | The other, biolacid diarrhea or biolacid malabsorption, which we've |
| 1:46.9 | discussed on the podcast in the past, which falls in the same thing. There is a validated marker |
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